Privacy Policy

Mid Wales Housing Association Limited (referred to as "we", "us" or "our") is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to our website at www.mid-walesha.co.uk. Please read the following privacy notices to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.

The sections within this Privacy Policy are as follows, please click to jump to the relevant section:

Tenant Privacy Notice

This Tenant Privacy Notice sets out what personal data we, Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd. (MWHA) hold about you and how we collect and use it, both whilst you are a tenant with us and after you have left. It applies to current and former tenants.

We are required by data protection law to give you the information in this Privacy Notice. It is important that you read the Privacy Notice carefully, together with any other information that we might give you from time to time about how we collect and use your personal data. You should also read our Data Protection Policy which explains our obligations in relation to personal data and how we keep it secure, as well as what we expect from you when you are handling personal data in the course of your tenancy.

This Privacy Notice applies from 25 May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force. It does not form part of your tenancy or other contract to provide services and does not give you any contractual rights. We may update this Privacy Notice at any time.

Who is the controller?

Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd. is the "controller" for the purposes of data protection law. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), our registration number is Z5287937. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you.

Our Data Protection Officer is the Group Company Secretary. As Data Protection Officer, they are responsible for informing and advising us about our data protection law obligations and monitoring our compliance with these obligations. They also act as your first point of contact if you have any questions or concerns about data protection.

What type of personal data do we hold about you?

Personal data means any information relating to a living individual who can be identified (directly or indirectly) in particular by reference to an identifier (e.g. name, NI number, tenancy reference number, email address, physical features). It can be factual (e.g. contact details or date of birth), an opinion about an individual's actions or behaviour, or information that may otherwise impact that individual in a personal or business capacity.

We hold and use various types of personal data about you, including, for example: biographical details; details of the terms of your tenancy with us; rent and service charge details etc.

Data protection law divides personal data into two categories: ordinary personal data and special category data. Any personal data that reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health conditions, sexual life or sexual orientation, or biometric or genetic data that is used to identify an individual is known as special category data. (The rest is ordinary personal data).

We hold and use various types of special category data about you, including: details of family living in your home which could include information about your health, religious beliefs, sexual life or sexual orientation; equal opportunities monitoring data which could include information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or health.

Why do we hold your personal data and on what legal grounds?

We hold and use your ordinary personal data for tenancy and business administration purposes. This will include, for example: management of our tenancy relationship with you; addressing conduct, anti-social behaviour.

Data protection law specifies the legal grounds on which we can hold and use personal data.

Most commonly, we rely on one or more of the following legal grounds when we process your personal data:

Where we need it to perform the contract we have entered into with you whether this is a tenancy agreement, a contract for services or another type of contract. We use the information you give us in the following ways:

Respond to any enquiries

Carry out repairs and maintenance to your home

Monitor your rent and service charge payments

Monitor satisfaction with our services

Let you know about changes to your tenancy

Let you know about changes at MWHA

Contact you by telephone, sms, email or post (where consent has been provided) to gain your opinions on the service provided by MWHA.

To improve Services

Where we need it to comply with a legal obligation typically, this may include legal obligations such as the obligation: to provide a repairs and maintenance service.

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. This may include, for example, managing your tenancy and monitoring satisfaction with our services.

We hold and use your special category data for purposes including, for example: making adjustments to your home to accommodate health conditions; monitoring equality of opportunity and diversity in our organisation.

Since special category data is usually more sensitive than ordinary personal data, we need to have an additional legal ground to use and hold it. Most commonly, as well as one of the legal grounds listed above, we rely on one or more of the following additional legal grounds when we process your special category data:

Where we need to exercise our legal rights or carry out our legal obligations in relation to your tenancy or benefits and the processing is in line with our Data Protection Policy (legal obligation/right in relation to tenancy)

Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for equal opportunities and in line with our Data Protection Policy (public interest in monitoring equal opportunities within MWHA)

Occasionally, we may also hold and use ordinary personal data: in the public interest for the detection or prevention of crime; or where needed to protect your vital interests or those of another person. We may also occasionally hold and use special category data: to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim; where needed to protect your interests (or someone else's interests) where you are not capable of giving your consent; or where you have already made the information public.

Sometimes we may use your personal data for purposes that are different from or incompatible with those for which we collected it. If we do this, we will notify you and explain our legal ground for using your data in this way, as required under data protection law.

How do we collect your personal data?

You provide us with most of the personal data about you that we hold and use. Other personal data about you we hold and use is generated by you in the course of your application for housing and tenancy. For example, during your application for housing email correspondence.

Some of the personal data we hold and use about you is provided by or generated from internal sources during the course of running our business. For example, employees may refer to you in emails or documents as part of their communication with you as part of your tenancy. We will monitor this to improve services, and information about you may be generated as part of our business and operational planning. It will remain anonymous when appropriate.

Some of the personal data about you that we hold and use may come from external sources. For example: when we offered you a home, we will have collected data from the Common Housing Register.

If you give us someone else's personal data

Sometimes, you might provide us with another person's personal data – e.g. details of your emergency contact or next of kin. In such cases, we require you to inform the individual what personal data of theirs you are giving to us. You must also give them our contact details and let them know that they should contact us if they have any queries about how we will use their personal data.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We will only share your personal data with third parties where we have an appropriate legal ground under data protection law which permits us to do so. Commonly, this could include situations where we provide the information to comply with our contractual duties to provide a maintenance and repair service to your home. Where it is necessary in our legitimate interest to improve services, monitor satisfaction with our services, mailings from MWHA.

Further details of who we share your personal data with, and our purposes and legal grounds for doing so, are set out here.

Consequences of not providing personal data

We only ask you to provide personal data when we have a good reason and there may therefore be consequences if you do not provide particular information to us.

Some of the personal data you provide to us is required by law. For example, if you do not provide:

Name(s) of applicant(s)

Previous address(es)

Contact details

Date of birth(s)

National insurance number(s)

Names and date of births for all household members

Local connection

Adaptations

Involvement with other agencies

Financial, employment and benefit information

Details of disclosed criminal convictions

We may require you to provide other personal data, where it is necessary for us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, or for you to fulfil your contractual obligations to us, or where our use of the data is necessary in our legitimate interests.

If you choose not to provide us with personal data requested, we will tell you about the particular implications of any such decision at the relevant time.

How long will we keep your personal data?

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for our legitimate purposes.

We take into account the following criteria when determining the appropriate retention period for Tenants'' personal data:

The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data

The risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure

The purposes for which we process your personal data and how long we need the particular data to achieve these purposes

How long the personal data is likely to remain accurate and up-to-date

For how long the personal data might be relevant to possible future legal claims

Any applicable legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements that specify how long certain records must be kept

Given the variety of tenants' personal data that we use and the varying circumstances in which we use it, it is difficult to specify ahead of time precisely how long we will keep particular items of personal data. Where possible, identify retention periods applicable to your personal data, which have been determined on the basis of the above criteria and which represent the longest period for which we will ordinarily keep it. This is identified in the Data Protection Policy We may often keep particular items of your personal data for less time. However, there may also be circumstances in which it is appropriate for us to keep particular items of your personal data for a longer period than that set out in the Data Protection Policy. In particular, we will always keep your personal data for so long as we are required to do so under legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements.

We will base these decisions on relevant circumstances, taking into account the criteria listed above.

Your rights

You have a number of legal rights relating to your personal data, which are outlined here:

The right to make a subject access request. This enables you to receive certain information about how we use your personal data, as well as to receive a copy of it and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

The right to request that we correct incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we hold about you.

The right to request that we delete or remove personal data that we hold about you where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

The right to object to our processing your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest (or those of a third party), where we cannot show a compelling reason to continue the processing

The right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

The right to request that we transfer your personal data to you or to another party, in a structured format. This right applies in respect of data that you have provided where our legal ground for using the data is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract or that you have consented to us using it (this is known as the right to "data portability").

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact The Data Protection Officer, in writing. Note that these rights are not absolute and in some circumstances we may be entitled to refuse some or all of your request.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being used by us, you can contact The Data Protection Officer, Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being used by Mid-Wales Housing Group Ltd. you can contact The Data Protection Officer.

Job Applicant Privacy Notice

This Job Applicant Privacy Notice sets out what personal data we, Mid-Wales Housing Association, hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process. It applies to anyone who is applying to work for us, whether as an employee, worker, contractor, consultant, intern, volunteer or director (together referred to as 'Job Applicant' or 'you').

Please note that we will not necessarily hold, use or share all of the types of personal data described in this Privacy Notice in relation to you. The specific types of data about you that we will hold, use and share will depend on the role for which you are applying, the nature of the recruitment process, how far you progress in the recruitment process and your individual circumstances.

We are required by data protection law to give you the information in this Privacy Notice. It is important that you read the Privacy Notice carefully, together with any other similar or additional information that we might give you from time to time about how we collect and use your personal data. Should your application be successful, when you start work for us, we will provide you with another privacy notice that explains how we deal with your personal data whilst you are working for us.

This Privacy Notice applies from 25 May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force. It does not give you any contractual rights. We may update this Privacy Notice at any time.

Who is the controller?

Mid-Wales Housing Association is the "controller" for the purposes of data protection law. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you.

Our Data Protection Officer is The Company Secretary of Mid-Wales Housing Association. As Data Protection Officer, they are responsible for informing and advising us about our data protection law obligations and monitoring our compliance with these obligations. They also act as your first point of contact if you have any questions or concerns about data protection.

What is personal data?

Personal data means any information relating to a living individual who can be identified (directly or indirectly) in particular by reference to an identifier (e.g. name, NI number, employee number, email address, physical features). It can be factual (e.g. contact details or date of birth), an opinion about an individual's actions or behaviour, or information that may otherwise impact that individual in a personal or business capacity.

Data protection law divides personal data into two categories: ordinary personal data and special category data. Any personal data that reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health conditions, sexual life or sexual orientation, or biometric or genetic data that is used to identify an individual is known as special category data. (The rest is ordinary personal data).

What type of ordinary personal data do we hold about you and why?

At the initial stages of recruitment, we collect, hold and use the following types of ordinary personal data about you:

Publicly available information about you, such as your business social media presence

Selection information, including correspondence, interview notes, internal notes, the results of any written or online selection tests

If you are shortlisted for a position, or you receive a conditional offer of employment, we may collect, hold and use the following additional types of ordinary personal data about you:

Pre-employment check information, including references and verification of qualifications

Right to work checks and related documents

We hold and use this personal data so that we can:

Process your application and correspond with you about it;

Assess whether you have the required skills, experience, qualifications and training for a role within the company;

Make informed recruitment decisions;

Verify information provided by you;

Check and demonstrate that you have the legal right to work in the UK;

Keep appropriate records of our recruitment process and decisions;

What are our legal grounds for using your ordinary personal data?

Data protection law specifies the legal grounds on which we can hold and use personal data.

We rely on one or more of the following legal grounds when we process your ordinary personal data:

We need it to take steps at your request in order to enter into a contract with you (entry into a contract), because by applying for a job with us you are effectively asking us to enter into a contract with you whether this is an employment contract, a contract for services or another type of contract.

We need it to comply with a legal obligation (legal obligation), e.g. the obligation not to discriminate during our recruitment process, or the obligation not to employ someone who does not have the legal right to work in the UK.

It is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (legitimate interest). For example, it is in our legitimate interests to review and consider your personal data (as listed above) so that we can select the most appropriate candidate for the job.

What type of special category personal data do we hold about you, why, and on what legal grounds?

We will only collect, hold and use limited types of special category data about you during the recruitment process, as described below.

Since special category data is usually more sensitive than ordinary personal data, we need to have an additional legal ground (as well as the legal grounds set out in the section on ordinary personal data, above) to collect, hold and use it. The additional legal grounds that we rely on to collect, hold and use your special category data are explained below for each type of special category data.

At the initial stages of recruitment, we collect, hold and use the following special category data about you:

Equal opportunities monitoring data which could include information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or health. We use this information to monitor equality of opportunity and diversity in our recruitment process. Our additional legal ground for using this information is that it is necessary in the public interest for the purposes of equal opportunities monitoring and is in line with our Data Protection Policy.

Adjustments for disability/medical conditions. Information relevant to any request by you for adjustments to the recruitment process as a result of an underlying medical condition or disability. We use this information to enable us to carry out a fair, non-discriminatory recruitment process by considering/making reasonable adjustments to our process as appropriate. Our additional legal ground for using this information is that we need it to comply with a legal obligation/exercise a legal right in relation to employment – namely, the obligations not to discriminate, and to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate a disability – and such use is in line with our Data Protection Policy.

If you are shortlisted for a position, or you receive a conditional offer of employment, we may collect, hold and use the following additional types of special category personal data about you:

Pre-employment health questionnaires/medicals. We collect information about your health in a pre-employment medical questionnaire and/or examination, as well as any information about underlying medical conditions and adjustments that you have brought to our attention. We use this information to assess whether you are fit to do the job with adjustments, to consider/arrange suitable adjustments and to comply with health and safety requirements. Our additional legal grounds for using this information are that: we need it to comply with a legal obligation/exercise a legal right in relation to employment – namely, the obligation to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate a disability – and such use is in line with our Data Protection Policy; and it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

Criminal records information/DBS checks. We may request criminal records checks from the DBS. We use this information to assess your suitability for specific roles and verify information provided by you. This is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation in the field of employment where a job applicant will be working with vulnerable people and the Association is subject to safeguarding obligations; and for those whose position involves significant financial responsibility. Our additional legal ground for using this information is that you have given us your explicit consent to do so.

How do we collect your personal data?

You provide us with most of the personal data about you that we hold and use, for example in your written or online application, by completing any assessments and during any interviews.

Some of the personal data we hold and use about you is generated from internal sources during the recruitment process. For example, the person interviewing you may score your suitability for the role and we record the reasons for decisions made about whether or not your application is successful.

Some of the personal data about you that we hold and use may come from external sources. For example, a recruitment agency provides us with a shortlist of candidates. If we offer you a role, we will carry out pre-employment checks, such as taking up references from past employers or education providers and we may check your qualifications by contacting the awarding body. We may ask an occupational health professional to report to us on your fitness to do the job. We may seek a criminal record check from the DBS. In some circumstances, we may ask the Home Office for information about your immigration status to verify your right to work in the UK. For some roles, we may also obtain information about you from publicly available sources, such as your LinkedIn profile or other media sources.

Who do we share your personal data with?

Recruitment agencies. We occasionally engage recruitment agencies to provide us with the details of suitable candidates for our available vacancies, to communicate with those candidates and to handle administration in connection with the recruitment process. If we have received your initial application details from a recruitment agency, we will share with them any of your personal data that is necessary to enable them to fulfil their functions for us. Our legal grounds for doing so are that: it is necessary for entry into a contract; and it is in our legitimate interest to engage service providers to assist us with the recruitment process.

Medical/occupational health professionals. We may share information relevant to any request by you for adjustments to the recruitment process as a result of an underlying medical condition or disability with medical/occupational health professionals to enable us to identify what, if any, adjustments are needed in the recruitment process and, if you are successful, once you start work. We may also share details of disclosed medical conditions and/or answers to pre-employment health questionnaires with medical/occupational health professionals to seek a medical report about you to enable us to assess your fitness for the job and whether any adjustments are needed once you start work. This information may also be used by the medical/occupational health professionals to carry out assessments required by health and safety legislation. Our legal grounds for sharing this personal data are that: it is necessary for entry into a contract; it is in our legitimate interests to consider adjustments to enable Job Applicants to participate fully in the recruitment process and to assess the fitness for work of Job Applicants to whom we have offered jobs; and it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations/exercise legal rights in the field of employment (obligations not to discriminate, to make reasonable adjustments, to comply with health and safety requirements).

Legal/professional advisers. We share any of your personal data that is relevant, where appropriate, with our legal and other professional advisers, in order to obtain legal or other professional advice about matters related to you or in the course of dealing with legal disputes with you or other Job Applicants. Our legal grounds for sharing this personal data are that: it is in our legitimate interests to seek advice to clarify our rights/obligations and appropriately defend ourselves from potential claims; it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations/exercise legal rights in the field of employment; and it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Home Office. We may share your right to work documentation with the Home Office, where necessary, to enable us to verify your right to work in the UK. Our legal ground for sharing this personal data is to comply with our legal obligation not to employ someone who does not have the right to work in the UK.

Consequences of not providing personal data

We only ask you to provide personal data that we need to enable us to make a decision about whether or not to offer you a role. If you do not provide particular information to us, then we will have to make a decision on whether or not to offer you a role without that information, which in some cases could result in us deciding not to recruit you. For example, if we ask you to provide an example of previous written work or a certificate verifying a qualification and you do not, we will have to decide whether to recruit you without that information. If you do not provide us with names of referees or a reference when asked, we will not usually be able to offer you the role. In addition, some of the personal data you provide to us is required by law. For example, if you do not provide us with the documentation we need to check your right to work in the UK, then we cannot by law employ you.

If you choose not to provide us with personal data requested, we will tell you about the implications of any such decision at the relevant time.

How long will we keep your personal data?

We will keep your personal data throughout the recruitment process.

If your application is successful, when you start work for us you will be issued with an Employee Privacy Notice which will include information about what personal data we keep from the recruitment process and how long we keep your personal data whilst you are working for us and after you have left.

If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your personal data for up to 6 months from the date we notify you of our decision. There may, however, be circumstances in which it is appropriate for us to keep particular items of your personal data for longer. We will base these decisions on relevant circumstances, taking into account the following criteria:

The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data

The risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure

The purposes for which we process your personal data and how long we need the particular data to achieve these purposes

How long the personal data is likely to remain accurate and up to date

For how long the personal data might be relevant to possible future legal claims

Any applicable legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements that specify how long certain records must be kept

In all cases, we will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for our legitimate purposes.

References

If you give us details of referees, we require you to inform them what personal data of theirs you are giving to us. You must also give them our contact details and let them know that they should contact us if they have any queries about how we will use their personal data.

Your Rights

You have a number of legal rights relating to your personal data, which are outlined here:

The right to make a subject access request. This enables you to receive certain information about how we use your data, as well as to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

The right to request that we correct incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we hold about you.

The right to request that we delete or remove personal data that we hold about you where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

The right to object to our processing your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest (or those of a third party), where we cannot show a compelling reason to continue the processing

The right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

The right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data. As described above, we do not normally rely on your consent as the legal ground for using your personal data. However, if we are relying on your consent as the legal ground for using any of your personal data and you withdraw your consent, you also have the right to request that we delete or remove that data, if we do not have another good reason to continue using it.

The right to request that we transfer your personal data to another party, in respect of data that you have provided where our legal ground for using the data is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract or that you have consented to us using it (this is known as the right to "data portability").

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact The Company Secretary, Mid-Wales Housing Association in writing. Note that these rights are not absolute and in some circumstances we may be entitled to refuse some or all of your request.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being used by us, you can contact The Company Secretary, Mid-Wales Housing Association 0300 111 3030

Note too that you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. Details of how to contact the ICO can be found on their website: https://ico.org.uk

Contact / Marketing Privacy Notice

This Contact/Marketing Privacy Notice sets out what personal data we, Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd. (MWHA) hold about you and how we collect and use it.

We are required by data protection law to give you the information in this Privacy Notice. It is important that you read the Privacy Notice carefully, together with any other information that we might give you from time to time about how we collect and use your personal data. You should also read our Data Protection Policy which explains our obligations in relation to personal data and how we keep it secure.

This Privacy Notice applies from 25 May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force. We may update this Privacy Notice at any time.

Who is the controller?

Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd. is the "controller" for the purposes of data protection law. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), our registration number is Z5287937. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you.

Our Data Protection Officer is the Company Secretary. As Data Protection Officer, they are responsible for informing and advising us about our data protection law obligations and monitoring our compliance with these obligations. They also act as your first point of contact if you have any questions or concerns about data protection.

What type of personal data do we hold about you?

We collect your personal data when you provide us with this information to enable us to keep you updated on the activities and plans of the Association. This contact information may include your name, address, email address or telephone number. We make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information. We will periodically review your personal information to ensure that we do not keep it for longer than is permitted by law.

Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that all information, content, material or data you provide to the Association is correct, complete, accurate, not misleading and that you disclose all relevant facts.We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about children under the age of 16.

Data protection law divides personal data into two categories: ordinary personal data and special category data. Any personal data that reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health conditions, sexual life or sexual orientation, or biometric or genetic data that is used to identify an individual is known as special category data. (The rest is ordinary personal data).

Why do we hold your personal data and on what legal grounds?

We hold and use your personal data for general contact and business improvement purposes. You will have given these details directly to the Association.

Your contact details are kept to enable the Association to send you updates on the activities and plans of the Association.

In addition, the Association is continually seeking ways of improving its services. We may contact you directly or via a survey to gain your views about how the Association could improve its services. Any feedback you provide will only be used as part of our programme of continuous improvement.

How do we collect your personal data?

You will have provided us with most of the personal data about you that we hold and use.

Some of the personal data we hold and use about you is provided by or generated from internal sources during the course of running our business. For example, employees may refer to you in emails or documents as part of their communication with you.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We will only share your personal data with third parties where we have an appropriate legal ground under data protection law which permits us to do so.

To third parties for the purposes of distributing news briefings or similar.

To third parties for the purposes of undertaking surveys.

These third parties will include the company that hosts the Association's website and undertakes on-line surveys. Therefore, the Association will provide them with your details. The details are also be governed by this privacy notice to ensure the personal data is kept secure.

How long will we keep your personal data?

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your personal information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice or until you request it is deleted. Even if we delete your personal information, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

Your Rights

You have a number of legal rights relating to your personal data, which are outlined here:

The right to make a subject access request. This enables you to receive certain information about how we use your personal data, as well as to receive a copy of it and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

The right to request that we correct incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we hold about you.

The right to request that we delete or remove personal data that we hold about you where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

The right to object to our processing your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest (or those of a third party), where we cannot show a compelling reason to continue the processing

The right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

The right to request that we transfer your personal data to you or to another party, in a structured format. This right applies in respect of data that you have provided where our legal ground for using the data is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract or that you have consented to us using it (this is known as the right to "data portability").

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact the Company Secretary acting as, Data Protection Officer, in writing. Note that these rights are not absolute and in some circumstances we may be entitled to refuse some or all of your request.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being used by us, you can contact the Company Secretary acting as, Data Protection Officer, Mid-Wales Housing Association Ltd.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your personal data is being used by Mid-Wales Housing Group Ltd. you can contact the Company Secretary acting as, Data Protection Officer.

Cookie Privacy Notice

As with most websites, when you visit this website, a small amount of data may be stored on your mobile phone, tablet, or computer hard drive using cookies and similar technologies. Cookies help make this website work and provide information to us about how users interact with our site. We use this information to improve our website. We do not seek to identify individual visitors unless they choose to input their contact details into one of the forms on the website.

Cookies. There are various types of cookies that perform different functions and generally improve your experience on the website. We may use cookies to tell us whether you have visited the website before. We do not use cookies for advertising.

The types of cookies used on this website can be classified into one of three categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are essential in order to enable you to use certain features of the website, such as submitting forms on the website. Without these cookies, the services offered on the website cannot be provided to you. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the Internet.

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Facebook Privacy Notice

Members of the Mid-Wales Housing Association Facebook Group join by making a request to the Group Administrators. To do this, the user has to be a Facebook signed up member, abiding by the Facebook user and privacy policy. The request to join the Facebook group is made at the users own instigation and they are free to leave the group and delete their own comments/posts at any time. We understand that the majority of names on Facebook are real names (Facebook usage policy), but occasionally real names are not used.

The Association does not obtain or store personal information from Facebook regarding users. This data remains within the Facebook platform. The information available to others is based on an individual users' configured preferences and security options within the Facebook platform.

Once joined as a member, posts can be made directly to the group as requests for information, requests for action, to post photos and other multimedia or make general comments. Users can also make comments on other members posts including those initiated by Association staff members.

When requests are made in the group that require action by the Association, it becomes necessary at that point to identify an individual as far as matching them to existing Tenant Records already held in relation to the business. Identification is acquired by means of the inbuilt Facebook Messenger system as a request to the user to provide identification, so that we can fulfil and./or respond to the request. This is usually based on name and address details, which is the minimum amount required to match an individual to a tenancy account record.

Links To Other Websites

This website contains links and references to other websites. Please be aware that this privacy policy does not apply to those websites and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Data Protection Policy

Our latest Data Protection Policy has been updated in March 2018 to ensure the Group complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) as incorporated into UK legislation. Download Data Protection Policy.